Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

When It Rains It Pours...

"when it rains, it pours." Someone says to me,"I'm not strong enough for this ..."
When you think it's not the right time, you figure out, it's the perfect opportunity.

Sometimes, you have to just go out and play in the rain.
Once, when I was in a funk, my 5 year old daughter was cringing in her room not really sure what to do with this alien of a mother that was in her house. It was gray and raining outside and I thought the walls were going to cave in on me.
I went in there and got her and said, "do you know what it's like to laugh and cry at the same time? Do you know what rain feels like on your face?" She said no.
I grabbed her by the hand and we went outside in the clothes on our backs and barefoot. We ran to the end of the driveway and splashed in the river of water on the curb and laughed until we cried.
She said, "mommy, that's the best fun we have had in a long time."
My world was falling apart, but I had to show her how to live anyway. My life was a mess, but I had to keep moving. If you can't live for yourself, at least live for someone else. It's better than no life at all.

my poor daughter has lived through some tough mommy times. Now she's 15 and we laugh at them. One time, I let her throw all the wine glasses and beer glasses and shot glasses against a brick wall at our house because she was mad that her dad chose drinking at a bar over his visitation night with her. It was liberating. I try to be creative in my mothering.

i have loved reading what all of you have said...being a mother to my children is such a challenge...i spend all of my energy trying to keep my illness from affecting their lives in a negative way...i love the image of dancing in the rain...how symbolic...beautiful

A friend sent this to me..As far as I can see, grief will never truly end.It may become softer overtime, more gentleand some days will feel sharp.But grief will last as long as Love does - ForeverIt's simply the way the absence of your loved onemanifests in your heart. A deep longing accompaniedby the deepest Love some days. The heavy fog mayreturn and the next day, it may recede.Once again, it's...

Today is my 25th birthday, to my somewhat lack of surprise I can see already no one really seems to care. I've always been the kinda person to make sure that everyone I Care about feels appreciated and knew somebody had their back. I can count 4 times this year when I Went out of my way to make sure a "friend" felt good on their birthday, especially if they got left hanging. Its early in the...

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